The medusa-logoed company, whose glittering gowns are worn by film stars such as Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz, said the damages awarded by a U.S. court were one of the highest ever obtained by an Italian company in a case brought abroad to protect trademark.

Versace had revenues of 268 million euros ($359.6 million) in 2009. The ruling is immediately executable, the company said.

“We have won a historic judgment, reached at the culmination of the anti-counterfeiting action undertaken by the Group and whose effects will benefit all the luxury Italian brands,” Versace’s Chief Executive Gian Giacomo Ferraris said in a statement.

Santo Versace, brother of company’s founder Gianni who was murdered in 1997, appeared as a key witness in the case.

More than 70 retail stores in Southern California and Arizona and over 110 people were investigated during the case.

Versace’s seven-year lawsuit is one of many brought by luxury goods companies to protect their brand names from fraud.